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Imperial Struggle
Tabletop Game
In 1697 the Sun King, Louis XIV, emerged from a decade of war with his Continental ambitions still...
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Earl and His Butler in Constantinople: The Secret Diary of an English Servant Among the Ottomans
Nigel R. Webb and Caroline Webb
Book
George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, was an unconventional ambassador. A Scottish aristocrat who had...
![The Language of Things: Design, Luxury, Fashion, Art: How We are Seduced by the Objects Around Us](/uploads/profile_image/9db/735a60a7-c0df-4f7a-9b22-6781f82ed9db.jpg?m=1522327418)
The Language of Things: Design, Luxury, Fashion, Art: How We are Seduced by the Objects Around Us
Book
In The Language of Things Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, decodes the things around us:...
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Gentleman's Guide To Vice And Virtue
Book
SIMON VS. THE HOMOSAPIENS meets the 1700s in this hilarious and swashbuckling standalone teen...
![The Golden Number: Pythagorean Rites and Rhythms in the Development of Western Civilization](/uploads/profile_image/69a/3872c4fb-815b-46f9-9531-b0e06ceba69a.jpg?m=1522360399)
The Golden Number: Pythagorean Rites and Rhythms in the Development of Western Civilization
Paul Valery and Matila C. Ghyka
Book
The Golden Number, or Phi (PHI), is a geometric ratio found throughout nature, often underlying the...
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Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea
Book
In the 18th century, the Royal Navy's own physician found that sailors were seven times more likely...
![The Political Economy of Latin American Independence](/uploads/profile_image/23f/2c440141-19a0-4c6a-a906-1dd71a60423f.jpg?m=1522337503)
The Political Economy of Latin American Independence
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak and Alexandre Mendes Cunha
Book
Although historians usually trace its origins to the Haitian Revolution of the late 18th Century,...
![Enlightenment is Your Nature: The Fundamental Difference Between Psychology, Therapy, and Meditation](/uploads/profile_image/163/b73413c8-4b01-41eb-8408-b4c0856e4163.jpg?m=1522360662)
Enlightenment is Your Nature: The Fundamental Difference Between Psychology, Therapy, and Meditation
Book
"Enlightenment" in Western cultures has long been associated with the 18th-century movement that...
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The Glutton
Book
One man with an insatiable hunger: a novel of desire and destruction in Revolutionary France, based...
Historical fiction France
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English Country House Interiors
Book
A highly detailed look at the English country house interior, offering unprecedented access to...